iB::Topic::usb flash drive? yeah mine's kinda dead.

	Damn Small Linux :: Damn Small Linux Board The DSL Forums

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

Damn Small Linux Board » Non-DSL Topics » Hardware Talk » usb flash drive? yeah mine's kinda dead.

		Mini-ITX Boards Sale, Fanless BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each!
		Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

Topic: usb flash drive? yeah mine's kinda dead.

< Next Oldest | Next Newest >

rhyek

Group: Members
Posts: 10
Joined: April 2006

Posted: June 30 2006,19:57

i have a sandisk micro 2GB (slow as hell btw) and it sorta went dead about three weeks ago. when i stick it in my pc, if i'm running windows xp it'll hang the moment i try to open the drive. soon as a i remove the drive windows works again. when running dsl, when i try to mount it, the os hangs. if i remove the drive it's still hung.
i'm pretty sure my pc freezes when the os is trying to read the partition. can't even format the drive since every tool i use first reads a partition before it modifies/deletes it.
so, my question is: is there a tool out there i can use which will eliminate all partitions on my ufd without reading them first? or perhaps, is there another way to fix my problem?
thanks for your help!

faroutscience Offline

Group: Members
Posts: 82
Joined: Aug. 2005

Posted: June 30 2006,22:14

I had a flash drive die in the same manner. Walmart replaced mine. I have two now, both a 128MB and 256MB Lexars that work perfectly. I use the small one for data and the larger one for DSL 3.0 & data. If I'm not mistaken, Sandisk & Lexar both have at least a 2 year warranty. At 2GB it is probably quite new. I would take the receipt and get a replacement.

Jeff

--------------
http://percenthost.com

kuky

Group: Members
Posts: 245
Joined: May 2005

Posted: July 18 2006,08:43

make the last chance with these

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki....endrive

if you use the force -f geometry of original geometry you rewritte alll the pendrive sectors , heads and cilinders...

kuky

Group: Members
Posts: 245
Joined: May 2005

Posted: July 18 2006,08:55

runs first dsl without pendrive then swich the pendrive and open emlfm and go to /mnt and see to sd devices and mount the pendrive ...i have to swich off the pendrive several times...

in xterminal make sfdisk in -f the original geometry...

with these procedure i recover to the life two usb pen drivers..

3 replies since June 30 2006,19:57

< Next Oldest | Next Newest >

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

Damn Small Linux Board » Non-DSL Topics » Hardware Talk » usb flash drive? yeah mine's kinda dead.